Silent Night
2023
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John Woo Yu-Sen SBS (Chinese: 吳 宇 森; born September 22, 1946) is a Hong Kong filmmaker, known as a highly influential figure in the action film genre. He is a pioneer of heroic bloodshed films (a crime action film genre involving Chinese triads ) and the gun fu genre in Hong Kong action cinema , before working in Hollywood films .
John Woo. Director: A Better Tomorrow. Born in southern China, John Woo grew up in Hong Kong, where he began his film career as an assistant director in 1969, working for Shaw Brothers Studios.
5 days ago · Discover the action director's biggest movies, including Face\/Off, Mission: Impossible 2, The Killer and more!
Once hailed by action star Jean-Claude Van Damme as "the Martin Scorsese of Asia," John Woo was a legendary action director in the Hong Kong film industry long before immigrating to...
John Woo. Director: A Better Tomorrow. Born in southern China, John Woo grew up in Hong Kong, where he began his film career as an assistant director in 1969, working for Shaw Brothers Studios.
6 days ago · John Woo, Chinese film director noted for action movies that combine copious stylized violence with lyrical melodramatic depictions of male bonding. He is best known for the films A Better Tomorrow (1986), Hard Boiled (1992), Broken Arrow (1996), and Face/Off (1997).
Nov 19, 2023 · On December 1st, the Hong Kong filmmaker John Woo will release his first American movie in twenty years, a dialogue-free Christmas revenge drama called “Silent Night.”
